Dark Pony Designs

• Turpentine Kisses

  January 9, 2011

  
  

  
  

  

   

  Cupid hath pulled back his sweetheart's bow

  To cast divine arrows into her soul
  To grab her attention swift and quick
  Or morrow the marrow of her bones be thick
  With turpentine kisses and mistaken blows
  
  See the devil may do as the devil may care
  He loves none sweeter as sweeter the dare
  Her mouth the mischief he doth seek
  Her heart the captive of which he speaks
  So note all ye lovers in love with the sound
  Your world be shattered with nary a note
  Of one cupids arrow under your coat
  
  And in the land of star crossed lovers
  And barren hearted wanderers
  Forever lost in forsaken missives and satan's pull
  We seek the unseekable and we speak the unspeakable
  Our hopes dead gathering dust to dust
  In faith, in compassion, and in love 

   

  

  This song "Cupid de Locke" by the Smashing Pumpkins circa 1995 represents so much high school heart break, romantic fantasy, and vivid imagery for me.  I am such a sucker for Valentines Day, just as much as I am a hopeless romantic. Hearts and kisses, ruffles and lace, love letters and Shakespeare, my head in the clouds.

  Listen to it here.

  xoxo

  
  

  

  
• Just Like Old Times

  January 6, 2011

  
  

  

  I love this spread from Steven Meisel and Italian Vogue. It feels real. Like real film and living people. Digital perfection can be tiring. Seeing something like this is refreshing. Long live "The Power of Glamour"!

  xoxo

  PS The polk-a-dots are pulling me in.

  

  
• A Tulle Fantasy

  January 4, 2011

  
  

  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  

   I have spent a large part of the New Year working on filling orders for tutus. My sewing room has been a billowing cloud of peachy pink tulle. There is something timeless and so romantic about that effortless ballet chic. It has inspired me to add more styles and colors to my shop. Here's to cotton candy sunsets and pearly white boudoirs.

  xoxo

  Images from top:

  SJP in Sex in the City, Dark Pony Designs , Carlotta Edwards Swan Lake Painting, L'Officiel Ukraine, Dark Pony Designs, my sewing table with tutu in progress.

  

  
• New Start-New Step

  December 30, 2010

  
  

  

  

  
• The Definition of Glam

  December 28, 2010

  
  

  Lara Stone wearing a slinky little number from Tom Fords' new collection via W magazine.

  

  

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